Title: Just breaking: A second nurse who attended Duncan has Ebola Source:
[None] URL Source:http://na Published:Oct 15, 2014 Author:na Post Date:2014-10-15 06:33:27 by out damned spot Keywords:None Views:4576 Comments:17
I just heard on the radio that a second nurse in Texas has come down with Ebola.
Second Texas Healthcare Worker Tests Positive For Ebola
Curtis Skinner
A second Texas healthcare worker who treated the first patient in the United States to be diagnosed with Ebola has tested positive for the disease, the Texas Department of State Health Services said in a statement on Wednesday.
The worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, who cared for Thomas Eric Duncan, was immediately isolated after reporting a fever on Tuesday, the department said.
"Health officials have interviewed the latest patient to quickly identify any contacts or potential exposures, and those people will be monitored," the department said.
The news comes just days after another nurse, 26-year-old Nina Pham, became the first person infected by Ebola in the United States while caring for Duncan during much of his 11 days in the hospital. He died on Oct. 8.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a statement that it was performing confirmation testing of Texas' preliminary tests on the new patient.
"An additional health care worker testing positive for Ebola is a serious concern, and the CDC has already taken active steps to minimize the risk to health care workers and the patient," the CDC said.
Some of the latest is she flew from Dallas to Cleveland and back right before she was diagnosed as having the disease. So now you have hundreds of people in crowded airplanes exposed to her, and she KNEW she wasn't supposed to fly but did anyway.
Just heard that on Fox News. What is it with this moron? I guess she believes everything her favorite president tells her. Needless exposure of citizens and their families. When are they going to recognize that this is far more than the flu? I shudder to think that this woman was a nurse.
I had a chat with Sherod Browns phone guy today. I let him know I couldn't support democrats anymore if they were going to put us at risk. I also asked him why it was more important to democrats for two men who .... pretending to be married was more important them keeping the country safe from Ebola.
